falling (death of a tree)

["Lynzi Godlove" <suneidesis at hotmail_com>]

on falling (death of a tree)

   "woe, woe, woe!" called the voice.  "Woe for my brothers and sisters!  
Woe for the holy trees!  The woods are laid waste.  The axe is loosed 
against us.  We are being felled.  Great trees are falling, falling, 
falling."
    With the last "falling,"  the speaker came in sight.  She was like a 
woman but so tall that her head was on a level with the Centaur's:  yet 
she was like a tree too.  It is hard to explain if you have never seen a 
Cryad but quite unmistakable once you had..."

     "A-a-ah," gasped the dryad shuddering as if in pain--shuddering 
time after time as if under repeated blows.  Then all at once she fell 
sideways as suddenly as if both her feet had been cut from under her.  
For a second, they saw her lying dead on the grass and then she 
vanished.  They knew what had happened.  Her tree, miles away, had been 
cut down.

so, I was remembering the closing track of Eve, for I had always 
wondered at the title.  I suppose it is a stretch, but in this passage 
from "The Last Battle" very much would put the song into an interesting 
context...especially considering the allegorical preferances of Lewis 
and the conclusion of the story.
   
furthermore, the implications of afterlife, and knowing and 
understanding that which is unfathomable in another place, which, again, 
on a Lewis note, would be a morphing of Orual, before the gods, seeing 
all aspects of the story revealed (in Till We Have Faces)  and the final 
chapter of the Last Battle, through the gateway in a New Narnia.

now, not that I intentionally pull Lewis into every OtR related topic, 
but the two bring about the same reactions in me.

(how come I never come up with nonsuch commentaries like this in my 
English classes?  no doubt the fellow nutcases of my major would 
appreciate the philosophising?)

lindsey.

I'll awake to find your love 
falling like leaves to the ground 
I'll awake to find your love 
falling like leaves 

you will look to find me down 
upon my knees without a sound 
you will look to find me down 
upon my knees 

then we can fling wide the gates 
let go the last of our hate 
then we can sigh like the cool clear wind 
up high 
through the sky above 
then we can say we're in love 

then we can rest mortal eyes 
laugh as we run out of temporal breath 
then we can move 
we can sing 
we can tremble like birds 
through the sky above 
then we can say we're in love 





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